Category: Google_docs

Assessment is at the heart of effective teaching and learning. Gathering assessment data guides us to better teaching and learning outcomes. The two main complementary approaches are Assessment of learning (summative) and Assessment for learning (formative).

There are lots of online tools (and tablet apps) that can help us assess our students’ understanding via AoL or AfL. In this post we will look at 3 free tools. More tools will be discussed in further posts.

Many schools are using G Suite (Google) as a learning environment. Schools using G Suite and Google Classroom can can simply create a quiz in Forms, include images and videos when desired, and indicate the correct answer for each item. When students take the quiz, Forms will automatically grade every response that has a correct answer identified. You can also assign open-ended questions. The crucial thing is that individual feedback can be given to each student.

Kahoot! is a very popular game-based site where teachers display questions on the whiteboard/screen. The students then log into Kahoot on their own or in groups with their code and answer them. . Free (web/app) kahoot.com

Our third suggestion is SeeSaw which is a very simple and intuitive tool for students to create their own digital portfolios. There is huge scope for self-assessment and for AfL with this bright and colourful (free) tool available online or via a tablet app. Students and teachers post artifacts of learning in a variety of ways: audio, video, photo, drawing, note etc. Everything can be annotated with a text description, text caption, or audio recording. Feedback is easy and parents can log in to comment and praise the work.

As we know, it’s easy to create a Google document from inside Google Drive. When the document opens we just need to go to Tools and click on Voice Typing. This is a very accurate feature that would help a lot of students who may struggle with literacy.